Business rules, implementation

An invariant captures a consistency rule about a required relationship between attributes. For example, at the business level, an instructor should never be assigned to a course unless qualified. For a given implementation, this means that certain combinations of stored data should never occur. An invariant representing a business rule, such as assign-Qualified, could look a lot more complex when expressed against an optimized implementation. For example, to efficiently find replacement instructors as availability changes, the... 

Sales staffers will now work through a Sales Client component (see Figure 10.28). This is an evolutionary change the other components will stay exactly as they are. The Sales Client provides a single user interface to all the components used by the sales staff. It implements some of the cross-component business rules such as the Account-Order tie-up, eliminating that area of human error. 

Now that the Sales Client has become the sales operator s sole interface with the system, it should take complete responsibility for implementing the actions and business rules associated with sales. Its spec is the sales part of the requirements. It should therefore provide complete operations for making an order, adding the currently displayed product to the order, and creating and adding the proper amounts to the Customer s account. 

Since each organization has unique business rules, it is highly desirable that the chemistry intelligence software is flexible to allow customized implementations of chemistry rules handling. MDL Cheshire does a pretty good job from that perspective. 

Application Controller The central controller of the system workflow. Chemistry Intelligence Objects that implement chemistry business rules and salt handling logic. 

JBoss Rules is an open-source production rule system designed for implementing business rules according to business policies. 

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Rule-based ATP allocation mechanisms are simple and straightforward, which leads to relative simplicity in implementation and integration with other business processes. Thus, they can be easily modified and combined with other business rules to achieve broader objectives. In the next section we discuss the use of optimization-based allocation models, which bring a higher level of complexity but allow for consideration of more problem details. 

The implementation phase has many activities as the firm creates, develops, and deploys its CRM methodology. Now the business objectives and requirements for change are confirmed. Business rules consistent with... 

In documenting your operational policies to meet ISO/TS 16949 you need to address each requirement in the standard where it is relevant to your business in terms that enshrine the above principles. Procedures implement policies - therefore the policies do not need to stipulate how things are carried out. In order to be effective, the policies should state what is to be done and the rules that constrain the actions and decisions connected with it. 

Documentation is structured around specifications and implementation and their refinement and import relationships. A user manual—a description of how a user accomplishes tasks by using the system(s)—is a particular form of documentation associated with a refinement how the abstract business model and actions are realized by more-detailed actions performed by the users and systems. Test specifications are also associated with refinement relationships. The rules for system architecture are documented in a package that specifies the patterns and frameworks that will be used in other packages that import it. 

Golden rule. Wherever possible, let your design reflect the model of the problem domain (Pattern 6.1, The OO Golden Rule (Seamlessness or Continuity) (p.307)). This makes it much easier to bridge the gap from business models to implementations. 

Pharmaceutical distributors, wholesalers, importers, exporters, all those involved in the distribution chain are key players that, maybe more than others, should improve their capacity to combat counterfeit medicines. It is through the distribution chain that counterfeit medicines reach patients. It is therefore essential that distributors, wholesalers, importers, exporters develop and effectively implement business practices that make the distribution chain as impermeable as possible to counterfeits and open to appropriate verification by national authorities. It is known that in many countries unauthorized trade is widespread and that it is difficult to get unauthorized traders to respect rules and regulations. Yet, if unauthorized trade is the result of many factors, local distributors and retail pharmacists may find themselves part of the problem (for having left important areas of the country without effective supply mechanisms)... 

Pharmacies are affected by these rules in two ways. Pharmacies, by definition, deal with PHI (e.g., a prescription itself is PHI). If the pharmacy uses a computer, the information is then electronic and is known as ePHI (Barlas, 2004). HIPAA protects all individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral (DHHS, 2003). This covered information includes demographic data, including the individual s physical or mental health (past, present, or future) the health care provided to the individual and payment information and common identifiers (e.g., name, address, birth date, and Social Security Number) that can be used to identify the individual. Pharmacies must have numerous policies and procedures in place to be in compliance with the HIPPA mandates. These include conducting risk assessments, appointing security and privacy officers to ensure compliance, and implementing policies and procedures to detect and prevent security violations. 

The FDA implements the statutory provisions of the FFDCA and PHS Act and associated laws through regulations. Regulations are rules that generally have the force of law. They provide more explicit information about how a business or manufacturer should conduct their operations and submit information to... 

For the pharmaceutical industry, it is ironic that attention to these special populations is now proving good business , either because of an extension of protected patent life, or because of the development of special business units. These units have increased market penetration and retention of drugs for third-party reimbursement and allowed niche dominance. The latest of the four major special populations rulings by ICH, the final rule on Acceptability of Foreign Data, was implemented in July 1998. While it is the latest, it will... 

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